Polarcus has received a letter of intent from Maersk Oil on behalf of the Danish Underground Consortium (DUC) for a 4D marine seismic survey offshore Denmark. The project is due to commence in Q2 2016 and will run for approximately three months…
Norway-based geoscience firm PGS has laid claim to the industry's largest seismic spread, offshore Myanmar. The firm says its vessel, the Ramform Titan, working in the Bay of Bengal, is towing the industry’s first ever single vessel 18 streamer seismic operation…
Norway-based geoscience firm Polarcus has started a new RightBAND multi-client project over the Vulcan Sub-basin, offshore the North West Shelf, Australia. The Cygnus 3D Survey is being acquired with joint investment from Spectrum and DownUnder GeoSolutions…
Norway-based geoscience firm Dolphin Geophysical has filed for bankruptcy just days after warning it had struggled to restructure its debt and capital structure. The firm, whose shares halved last Thursday after it warned it could have to file for insolvency…
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) announces that the company has entered into a data licensing agreement with an international oil company for the provision of 3D EM data from the multi-client data library over the Daybreak project located in the western US Gulf of Mexico worth a total of US$1…
Fugro has been awarded a three-year contract by PGS for the provision of precise satellite positioning systems for its entire seismic vessel fleet. Fugro, a provider of precise satellite positioning to the offshore oil and gas industry…
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has announced that the company has entered into a data licensing agreement with an international oil company for the provision of 3D EM data from the multi-client data library over the Foz de Amazonas and Ceara basin in Brazil worth a total of US$ 4.1 million.
Image from iStock. African Petroleum's wholly-owned subsidiary European Hydrocarbons Ltd. (EHL) entered into the first extension period on the SL-03 license, offshore Sierra Leone. The…
Polarcus recently completed its first commercial project offshore Australia utilizing the revolutionary XArray in a five source configuration known as Penta source. With XArray Penta source we are achieving unparalleled data density at 6…
The recent integration of automated real-time seismic hazard detection is the latest development furthering the argument for permanent reservoir monitoring. Aaron Smith, of PGS, sheds light. Fig…
Heather Saucier investigates how microseismic monitoring is being used for monitoring field conditions in real time and helping to build better models. Landmark’s 3D models can use reservoir monitoring to improve performance prediction…
TGS is reprocessing some 22,847km of 2D seismic offshore Portugal thanks to success in the conjugate offshore Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. This project, which uses TGS' broadband solution Clari-Fi, is now fully underway, said the firm…
Two seismic acquisition campaigns are due to start offshore Myanmar in coming weeks according to reports of a notice in state media from the country. UK-based BG Group and Australia’s Woodside Energy will both start 3D campaigns later this month using the Ramform Sovereign and Ramform Titan…
Norwegian seismic technology firm Magseis has entered into an agreement with Shell Global Solutions International for the further joint development of a system to deploy Magseis’ MASS technology in ultra deepwater. The agreement regulates…
The Capreolus 3D multi-client project, the largest single 3D seismic survey ever acquired offshore Australia was recently completed by Polarcus ahead of schedule after a successful 11 month acquisition campaign. This basin-wide broadband…